Academia Sinica E-news No. 169 LECTURES Date Time Venue Speaker Title Moderator Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Fri 06/04 Room 1203 of the Astronomy-Mathematics Dr. Howard Yee 14:00 Building (Univ. of Toronto) (NTU Campus) Mon 06/07 10:30 Dr. Andrei I. Volodin Confidence Intervals for a Ratio of Dr. 2 Fl. Lecture Hall, Tsai Binomial Proportions Based on (Univ. of Western Australia, Yuan-Pei Memorial Hall Ting-Li Chen Unbiased Estimators Australia) Mon 06/07 12:00 Dr. Ken Chen Conference Room of ASIAA (NTU Campus) (Univ. of Minnesota) Wed 06/09 14:00 Room 1101, 11F, S, BHSS Thu 06/10 15:30 Conference Room A108, Dr. David Yu-Kai Chen Inst. of Chemistry (ICES, Singapore ) Fri 06/11 Recent Results on Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology from the RCS and the SpARCS Surveys Multi-Dimensional Simulations of Pair-Instability Supernovae Dr. David T. Shaw Opportunities in Air Quality and (State Univ. of New York at Climate (AQAC) Research in the Asian-Pacific Region Buffalo, USA) Total Synthesis of Natural Products: Strategies and Opportunities Room 1203 of the Astronomy-Mathematics Dr. Pisin Chen 14:00 Building (NTU) (NTU Campus) The Dark Energy Puzzle Seminar Room 609, Mr. Ju-Chen Yang 14:40 Institute of Mathematics (NTU) (NTU Campus) Woodroofe's method (Sequential Analysis Study Group) Dr. Rong-Jie Chein Mon 06/14 12:00 Dr. Jeremy Jim Conference Room of How to make a Discovery in ASIAA (NTU Campus) (University of Hong Kong) Astronomy Tue 06/15 15:30 Dr. Conference Room A108, Dr. Sung Soo Kim The Methodology for Chemical Inst. of Chemistry (Univ. of Inha, South Korea) Synthesis via Catalytic Reactions Tahsin J. Chow Fri 06/18 Room 1203 of the Dr. Pisin Chen 14:00 Astronomy-Mathematics Building (NTU Campus) (NTU) The Dark Energy Puzzle Division of Life Sciences Thu 06/03 Fri 06/04 Mon 06/07 R114, The Inst. of 11:00 Biological Chemistry Dr. Alex Huang (Novartis Inst. for Biomedical Research, USA) Discovering Tankyrase as a Novel Dr. Modulator of Wnt Signaling Ruey-Hwa Pathway-Unleash the power of Chen forward chemical genetics Dr. Tsutomu Ishimaru Auditorium A134, (NARO, NICS, Rice Rice Grain Quality and Fertility 10:00 Agricultural Technology Physiology Research Team, under High Temperature Stress Building Japan) Dr. Yee-Yung Charng 11:00 IMB B1 Auditorium Dr. Stephan Sigrist (Freie Universitäet Berlin, Germany) Dr. Shedding Light on the Assembly of Cheng-Ting Synapse Structure and Function Chien 1F Auditorium, 10:30 Genomics Research Center Dr. Wayne Koff (IAVI, USA) Challenges and Opportunities in AIDS Vaccine Development Dr. Chi-Huey Wong B1C Lecture Room, 11:00 Inst. of Biomedical Sciences Dr. Jack L. Feldman (UCLA) Searching for Inspiration Dr. Chun-Kuei Su 1 Academia Sinica E-news No. 169 Date Time Venue Speaker Title Tue 06/08 Meeting Room, 2F, 10:30 Genomics Research Center Wed 06/09 Room A134, Agricultural Technology Dr. Jason Shih 15:00 Building, Institute of (Univ. of North Carolina Plant and Microbial State ) Biology Mon 06/14 B1B Lecture Room, 11:00 Inst. of Biomedical Sciences Tue 06/15 Thu 06/17 Tue 06/22 Dr. Jean-Christophe Gelly (INSERM, France) Moderator Dr. Analysis and Description of Protein Structure, Architecture, and Trees-Juen Organization using Protein Units Chuang Holistic Farming and New Agriculture: The On-Farm Production of Food and Fuel Dr. Teng-Yung FENG How do Organisms Deal with the Dr. Shan-Ho Chou Dr. Inevitable Deleterious Alkyl Peroxides? – Hints from a (Natl. Chung Hsing Univ. ) Chinpan Chen Structural Biology Approach Auditorium A134, Dr. Shin-Han Shiu Hidden Messages In the Intergenic Dr. 10:00 Agricultural Technology (Michigan State Univ., USA) Regions of Plant Genomes Ming-Che Shih Building Auditorium, 1st Floor, Biodiversity Research Dr. Fushing Hsieh 14:00 Center (Former Institute (UC Davis) of Zoology) 14:00 IMB 1F Auditorium 11:00 IMB 1F Auditorium Discovering Slightly Aggregated Sparse Signals Dr. Lucia Liu Severinghaus Dr. Michael J. Baum (Univ. of Boston) The Neurobiology of Pheromone Processing Dr. Cheng-Ting Chien Dr. Gary Blissard (Cornell Univ.) Structure-Function of the Baculovirus GP64 envelope Protein, a Class III Viral Fusion Protein that Mediates Receptor Binding and pH-Triggered Membrane Fusion Dr. Yu-Chan Chao Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Fri 06/03 The Archives 14:30 Building, Inst. of Modern History Fri 06/04 14:00 Tue 06/08 Conference Room Dr. Rong Chen 14:30 B110, Building B, Inst. (Rutgers Univ.) of Economics Dr.Yu Miin-Ling (Inst. of Modern History) Conference Room, 1F, Dr. Chiu-Yu Lee RCHSS (NCU) How to Make an Offer? Empirical Evidence for eBay Motors Self-Selectivity in Firm’s Decision to Withdraw IPO: Bayesian Inference for Hazard Models of Bankruptcy with Feedback Focus Group Room of Dr. Shu-Li Cheng CSR, RCHSS (Inst. of Statistical Science) Thu 06/10 14:00 IPSAS Conference Room B Anti-imperialism and Anti-colonialism: The CCP's View of the Outside World in Textbooks (1949-1965) The Role, Context and Typology of Universities and Higher Education Institutions in Innovation Systems: A UK Perspective International Actors, Agents of State and Civil Society Organizations: The Landscape of HIV/AIDS NGOs in China Dr. Chanhsi Wang (IPSAS) Dr. Jen-to Yao Room 802, 8F, Institute of Sociology (National Tsing-Hua Univ.) Why Democracy? A Historical Dr. Study on the Idea of ‘Democracy’ A-chin Hsiau in Taiwan, 1895-1986 Fri 06/11 14:30 Tue 06/15 The 3rd Conference Dr. Edyta Roszko Spirited Dialogues: Contestations 12:00 Room (R2319), over the Religious Landscape in (The Max-Planck-Inst. for Institute of Ethnology Social Anthropology in Halle, Central Vietnam’s Littoral Society 2 Academia Sinica E-news No. 169 Date Time Venue Speaker Title Germany) 3 Moderator